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Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints

Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints is a research topic within Clinical Psychology. Science Explorer counts 22k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the assessment of decisional capacity in psychiatric patients, including topics such as informed consent, coercive measures, mental health law, involuntary hospitalization, competency assessment, seclusion and restraint, patient autonomy, capacity evaluation, and ethical considerations.

  • Informed Consent
  • Psychiatric Treatment
  • Coercive Measures
  • Mental Health Law
  • Involuntary Hospitalization
  • Competency Assessment
  • Seclusion and Restraint
  • Patient Autonomy
  • Capacity Evaluation
  • Ethical Considerations
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+3%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints

Which countries lead Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.1k and 575 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.1k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 575 works
  3. 3 Germany 308 works
  4. 4 Australia 258 works
  5. 5 Canada 225 works
  6. 6 China 155 works
  7. 7 Spain 140 works
  8. 8 Italy 125 works
  9. 9 India 122 works
  10. 10 Japan 109 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 34.7%United Kingdom: 18.6%Germany: 10.0%Australia: 8.4%6 others listed: 28.3%35%largest
United States1,073 · 34.7%United Kingdom575 · 18.6%Germany308 · 10.0%Australia258 · 8.4%6 others listed876 · 28.3%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints research, followed by University of Toronto and King's College London.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 46 works
  2. 2 University of TorontoCanada 41 works
  3. 3 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 22 works
  4. 4 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 21 works
  5. 5 Yale UniversityUnited States 21 works
  6. 6 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 21 works
  7. 7 The University of MelbourneAustralia 19 works
  8. 8 United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States 18 works
  9. 9 The University of SydneyAustralia 18 works
  10. 10 Monash UniversityAustralia 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints include Theo Vos, George Davey Smith and Gordon Henry Guyatt.

  1. 1 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  2. 2 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  3. 3 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  4. 4 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  5. 5 Peter Christian Gøtzsche Denmark 292k citations
  6. 6 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
  7. 7 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  8. 8 Jean‐Louis Vincent Belgium 262k citations
  9. 9 Andrea C. Tricco Canada 258k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints?

The most cited paper in Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints is "Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions" (Dawn Stacey, France Légaré, Krystina B. Lewis et al., 2017), with 6,656 citations. Next come "Sensitivity of revised diagnostic criteria for the behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia" (5,386) and "A Systematic Review of Mortality in Schizophrenia" (2,093).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions Dawn Stacey, France Légaré, Krystina B. Lewis et al. · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Open access 12 Apr 2017 6,656
2 Sensitivity of revised diagnostic criteria for the behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia Katya Rascovsky et al. · Brain Open access 2 Aug 2011 5,386
3 A Systematic Review of Mortality in Schizophrenia Sukanta Saha, David Charles Chant, John Joseph McGrath · Archives of General Psychiatry Oct 2007 2,093
4 Classification for Effective Rehabilitation D. A. Andrews, James Bonta, Robert D. Hoge · Criminal Justice and Behavior Mar 1990 1,898
5 Developing a quality criteria framework for patient decision aids: online international Delphi consensus process Glyn Jones Elwyn · BMJ Open access 14 Aug 2006 1,885
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Where is Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints research done?

The largest centres of Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Melbourne (Australia), New York (United States) and Toronto (Canada). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Leeds and Dublin.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 151 works
  2. 2 MelbourneAustralia 69 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 60 works
  4. 4 TorontoCanada 53 works
  5. 5 BostonUnited States 49 works
  6. 6 SydneyAustralia 43 works
  7. 7 DublinIreland 40 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 39 works
  9. 9 MontrealCanada 37 works
  10. 10 BrisbaneAustralia 36 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LeedsGB · 22.4 works6.3×
  2. DublinIE · 40.0 works5.8×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University of Toronto and Johns Hopkins University score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 17.36%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Copenh…Harvard UniversityJohns Hopkins Univer…University of Toronto
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 78.117.6%3.7×46 +5.1%
2University of TorontoCanada 69.112.4%5.2×41 -0.9%
3Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 66.817.2%3.6×21 +40.5%
4University of CopenhagenDenmark 65.121.7%3.0×11 +71.4%
5University of BaselSwitzerland 64.020.8%10.3×15 +3.3%
6King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 62.516.1%6.7×22 -34.6%
7University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 59.015.0%3.1×17 -7.1%
8University of Southern DenmarkDenmark 57.517.9%6.0×9 +24.1%
9University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 57.214.1%5.3×15 -2.3%
10University of OsloNorway 56.920.8%5.3×13 -22.5%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints, country by country

Is Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.017% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints10.1% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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